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  • All Saints Church and graveyard at Stone, in Ham and Stone parish, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Watercolour attributed to W. Davies, 1797.
  • Sycamore tree (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) in a graveyard near Reading, Berkshire. Soft-ground etching by W. Delamotte, c. 1806, after W. Havell.
  • A woman leaning on a tombstone in a graveyard reading from her bible. Stipple engraving by J. Cochran after Joseph John Jenkins, 1839.
  • A bereaved mother mourning her dead daughter in a graveyard, stricken with remorse for having treated her harshly in her lifetime. Engraving by R.L. Wright.
  • Two men in a graveyard, one of them pointing to an ornate stone tomb, possibly to indicate the whereabouts of a third man to the second one. Etching attributed to J.W. Meil, 17--.
  • In the graveyard of a church, Tom Idle gambles with some disreputable companions on a tombstone; the parish beadle stands behind and raises a stick as if to beat Idle. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795.
  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • Mortsafes in churchyard
  • G.A. Walker, Lectures on the metropolitan grave-yards.
  • Entrance to vault in Leochel old churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe used as a cattle trough, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe at Oyne, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe in Skene churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe tackle at Invererie, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe in Towie churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Cyprus. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
  • Larnaca, Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Larnaca, Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.